Army Corps of Engineers to drastically reduce the amount of water flowing downstream to Alabama from Lake Allatoona in Georgia. In a letter sent Tuesday morning to Col. Byron Jorns, the commander of the Corps of Engineer's Mobile District, Riley called the move "reckless, unjustified and punitive. The Governor also wrote that the decision is part of a pattern of the Corps ignoring Alabama's water needs. The full text of the Governor's letter is below:. Dear Colonel Jorns:.
I am writing in response to your decision to reduce hydropower generation from Lake Allatoona by 50 percent effective October 3, This decision will cause serious environmental damage to the State of Alabama, and it has the high likelihood of causing serious disruptions to Alabama's public water supply, electric power grid, and industrial work force.
The decision also represents a continuing pattern by the Corps of Engineers of focusing on conditions at Lake Allatoona, while ignoring far more serious conditions in downstream reservoirs located in Alabama. On the day that your decision was announced, Lake Allatoona stood at an elevation more than 4 feet above its winter pool level and more than 27 feet above the bottom of its conservation storage pool. By contrast, every one of the ACT reservoirs in Alabama operated by Alabama Power Company is below its winter pool level, and the projections are that those projects will continue to drop to unprecedented lows in the weeks ahead.
The reason, of course, that the Alabama projects are in such a relatively worse condition than Lake Allatoona is that the Corps opted to withhold over 18 billion gallons of water in Lake Allatoona in the spring and summer of this year that should have flowed into Alabama according to the manual pursuant to which the Corps operates Lake Allatoona.
Having made a conscious decision to disadvantage the downstream Alabama projects earlier in the year, the Corps has decided again to ignore its manual and to cut hydropower generation from Lake Allatoona 50 percent below the minimum level set by the manual.
In the face of the unprecedented drought being experienced in the ACT Basin, this decision to favor Lake Allatoona over the rest of the system is wholly illegitimate and ignores the Corps' obligation to operate this federal resource in an even-handed manner.
There is no question that your decision to halve the hydropower generation at Lake Allatoona will have serious consequences for Alabama. The quality of water entering Alabama at Lake Weiss on the state line has teetered on the edge of failing to meet minimum water quality standards all summer. There can be little doubt that the radical reduction in water flows resulting from your decision will cause the water entering Alabama to consistently fail the most basic water quality standards.
These lower flows at Lake Weiss and the downstream reservoirs along the Coosa River will have additional consequences for the environment and wildlife. There is virtually no doubt that the lower flows will cause levels of dissolved oxygen to drop, raising the likelihood of massive fish kills. In addition, the lower downstream flows will likely cause serious problems for the City of Gadsden and other public water supply providers.
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